Pumps Whirring, Overheating

By @barley-juice (Twitter bio says reposts are fine with credit. If you post this on Tumblr I can delete and reblog that instead)

Do you ever find yourself thinking about how fun it would be to pop open the panels of an androids torso? About how intimate that would be for them? Especially if they know you have absolutely zero understanding of tech. But there they are, open to you, letting you poke and prod at the wires, circuits, motherboards, and coolant tubes, feeling them thrum with energy underneath your fleshy fingertips? Maybe you think about the sounds they would make when you grip their endoskeleton and let your hand glide along the cool, slick metal? Or the expression on their face when they realize that they are unable to make a sound after you jostled their vocal processor? Or the feeling you could bring them by pressing into the knotted wires of their pleasure sensors?

A usually stubborn, feverish sickie leaning into a caretaker’s forehead feel